The QT

Sunday 19 May 2024
19/05/2024

Craft Ale

Foraging for the perfect pint

Huge business decisions invariably come drenched in a bucket load of ‘have we done the right thing?’ But it was the sight of a roe deer munching contentedly on fresh spring leaves before summoning her two fawns that husband-and-wife brewers Sam and Red Kellie decided they had chosen the right location for their First & …

Brew lips from Amsterdam

A blue bicycle is tethered to a lamppost outside Whitley Bay’s newest pub. Random act or product placement? Let’s go for serendipity. The pub is Café Amsterdam and anyone who knows the slightest thing about the Dutch capital will recognise that every hitching post at every bar and canal bridge is a pedal-pusher’s depository. Café …

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